Disable Writing to USB


How would you felt when you assignments, projects or you classified data copied easily just by sticking a tiny cute thumb drive into your laptop or PC by some undesired users? You felt frustrating or angry? Whatever, lets learn a simple registry hack that disable any writing to a thumb drive twisted.

  1. Click Start > Run and type regedit
  2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ System\ CurrentControlSet\ Control
  3. Right click and select New > Key, to create a new folder and name it as StorageDevicePolicies
  4. Click that folder and in the window on the right, right click > New > DWORD Value and name it as WriteProtect
  5. Double click on it and give a value 1 under Value Data box

*1 – disable writing to USB

*0 – allow writing to USB

4 comments:

tulipspeaks said...

ah..important tip when we r using shared pc!

thanks!


ammu.

Anonymous said...

what to do if yourself want to copy it to ur USB?

Anonymous said...

won't they enable it and then copy it to USB?

k3sh said...

--> tulipspeaks
Sure welcome sis :)

--> anonymous
well not many ppl would know such trick ryt? exceptions for geeky fellas..but it'll took time for 'em to find out whats wrong ryt? :) well if you want to copy to ur USB jus change the value data from 1 to 0 :)
as mentioned bottom of the post